Inventor · Fremont, CA, US

Denton E. Gentry, Jr.

27Patents
20h-index
13Co-inventors
82Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 7, 1995 → Jan 20, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6650640B1 Method and apparatus for managing a network flow in a high performance network interface Electricity 386 Expired
US6453360B1 High performance network interface Electricity 273 Expired
US6356951B1 System for parsing a packet for conformity with a predetermined protocol using mask and comparison values included in a parsing instruction Electricity 250 Expired
US6389468B1 Method and apparatus for distributing network traffic processing on a multiprocessor computer Electricity 207 Expired
US5875352A Method and apparatus for multiple channel direct memory access control Physics 168 Expired
US6480489B1 Method and apparatus for data re-assembly with a high performance network interface Electricity 156 Expired
US5663952A Checksum generation circuit and method Physics 144 Expired
US6483804B1 Method and apparatus for dynamic packet batching with a high performance network interface Electricity 121 Expired
US6467008B1 Method and apparatus for indicating an interrupt in a network interface Electricity 86 Expired
US6434651B1 Method and apparatus for suppressing interrupts in a high-speed network environment Electricity 83 Expired
US6606301B1 Method and apparatus for early random discard of packets Electricity 80 Expired
US6021446A Network device driver performing initial packet processing within high priority hardware interrupt service routine and then finishing processing within low priority software interrupt service routine Physics 79 Expired
US5848293A Method and apparatus for transmission and processing of virtual commands Physics 65 Expired
US5740448A Method and apparatus for exclusive access to shared data structures through index referenced buffers Physics 33 Expired
US5659758A Interrupt modular for receiving bursty high speed network traffic Electricity 31 Expired
US5675829A Method and apparatus for coordinating data transfer between hardware and software by comparing entry number of data to be transferred data to entry number of transferred data Physics 30 Expired
US5778180A Mechanism for reducing data copying overhead in protected memory operating systems Electricity 28 Expired
US5953240A SIMD TCP/UDP checksumming in a CPU Physics 27 Expired
US7328294B2 Methods and apparatus for distributing interrupts Physics 21 Expired
US8588989B1 Power-consuming facilities as a source of reserve power Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 21 Active
US7822033B1 MAC address detection device for virtual routers Electricity 7 Active
US7894451B2 Method of providing virtual router functionality Electricity 6 Active
US7817633B1 Method of providing virtual router functionality through abstracted virtual identifiers Electricity 3 Active
US8595481B1 Method, manufacture, and apparatus for centralized wifi encryption for guest Electricity 3 Active
US9323308B1 Power-consuming facilities as a source of reserve power Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.